Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Just do what you want, I don't think you should ever... pointers and tips from people is great, and it's good and I don't think you should ever shun down advice, but if you feel something's wrong, then you don't do it. And that's what I'd say.
If somebody is willing to take some advice, then I have some, and that's just life in general. A lot of people don't want to hear anything.
Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.
You want to work with people who see something outside of you and that you're maybe not aware of. If someone gives you advice or tells you to do something, you want to be able to follow through with what you're asked to do, and also believe that.
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
It's so much easier to give advice than to take it.
I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.
